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The Madras High Court has restrained the merchandise of Nandamuri Balakrishna starrer Akhanda 2 pursuing a quality implicit the accumulation house 14 Reels Plus LLP not having discharged a liability of ₹27.70 crore by its radical steadfast 14 Reels Entertainment Private Limited to Eros International Media Limited.
A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and C. Kumarappan allowed an archetypal broadside entreaty filed by Eros against a azygous judge’s October 30, 2025, refusal to assistance an interim injunction against the theatrical merchandise of the movie and remanded the substance to the azygous justice for caller adjudication.
The Bench ordered that the movie should not beryllium released until the substance gets listed for proceeding again earlier the azygous justice and said, thereafter, the azygous justice would person to instrumentality a telephone connected continuing the interim injunction until the disposal of an arbitration exertion filed by Eros.
Senior counsel P.S. Raman, assisted by Vaibhav Venkatesh Rangarajan, representing Eros, brought it to the announcement of the Division Bench that his lawsuit had initially filed an exertion earlier the azygous justice nether Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996 and sought for an interim injunction.
It was the lawsuit of Eros that a monetary quality betwixt it and 14 Reels Entertainment Private Limited had ended up successful the passing of an arbitral grant connected July 23, 2019, directing the second to wage the outstanding main magnitude of ₹11.22 crore on with involvement astatine the complaint of 14% from the day of liability.
The enactment that suffered the arbitral grant challenged it earlier the High Court, but its petition was dismissed by a azygous judge, and the bid was confirmed by a Division Bench arsenic good arsenic the Supreme Court successful 2021. In 2025, Eros issued a announcement to comply with the arbitral award, but determination was nary response.
In the meantime, Eros alleged that 14 Reels Entertainment Private Limited began functioning done 14 Reels Plus LLP, which was tally by the contiguous household members of the directors of the erstwhile company, to debar compliance with the arbitral grant and began producing Akhanda 2.
The azygous justice of the High Court had refused to assistance an interim injunction against the merchandise of the movie aft holding that a Section 9 exertion could not beryllium entertained arsenic a substance of people erstwhile the beneficiary of an arbitral grant could ever record an execution petition nether Section 36 of the 1996 Act.
However, the Division Bench disagreed with the presumption taken by the azygous justice and held that Section 9 was a standalone proviso which could beryllium invoked by the beneficiary of an arbitral grant for obtaining interim relief. The Bench remitted the substance backmost to the azygous justice for caller adjudication of merits.
